This got me to convince my wife to switch to Linux again. She had the last Windows device in our household. She needed it for proprietary kitchen planners.
Now she's ranting about enshittification.
proprietary.... kitchen planners? wtf? wtf even is a kitchen planner?
That seems like the easiest thing to replace with something open source.
A kitchen planner is a program that lets you enter your room dimensions and then lets you fit kitchen cupboards, shelfs, cabinets and appliances in there. Ideally it comes with everything your supplier or contractor has on offer. Especially for colors and designs, but more importantly dimensions.
Luckily they are usually web based nowadays.
Right now my computer isn't supported by Windows 11 so I have some time. But seeing this crap coming eventually in my future, I started dual booting Linux Mint to see if I could live with it. Turns out I like it better than windows. I haven't booted my window partition in weeks. When I finally upgrade my computer it will probably be running solely on Linux now and maybe have Windows 7 running in a virtual box for the very few programs I still need it for.
None of this would have happened had Microsoft not pushed their corporate enshitification past my threshold. Thanks Microsoft.
I did the same a year ago and then I quite quickly switched over completely to Linux mint.
Depending on the software you need and how technical you are, Wine and Bottles may be a solution to not need an VM.
As a noobish user, I found it easier to use lutris. I think I'll mess with bottles again, but i couldn't get it to work for me.
The closest I've been to Windows since I've installed Linux is putting its partition in the NixOS (gen 19) filesystem list.
Worked on me. I left Win10 behind for linux a couple months ago. I installed Win11 in dual boot with an eval license but I just don't use it anymore. I'll probably just nuke it when the eval expires.
Didn't the start menus have ads for several years now?
Windows 10 definitely has but they don't come back once you delete them, which is garbage but less garbage
No. I've never seen an ad.
You can easily turn these off in lots than a minute according to a quick Google search.
Which is it then? You never seen them or you turned them off?
Yes, and it has one toggle to disable them all
And how many windows updates reset the setting??
How can I learn this power?
Do people seriously install the optional updates?
Don't worry, the next "mandatory" cumulative update will take care of that, even if you aren't installing it yourself.
Peter?Petah?
Microsoft is the "Linux salesman of the year" because most people switching to Linux do it just because Windows has become so terrible.
To get someone to explain the joke, you have to spell it "Petah".
Still not getting it.
Ah my bad, thanks
So... Peter is Australian??
It’s funny because the modern consumer doesn’t even care, everything is ad ridden these days, they won’t even notice. But yeah, fuck that noise. I slipstream windows for a reason (the reason is I have to use windows to support my IT customers 🥲)
yooo, I haven't used Win in a whileeee. did they move the start menu to the center of the panel?
Yup. Imo made the entire ui so much worse all in an effort to blur the line between macos and Windows.
Windows 10 already required 3rd party software for me to use it. Windows 11 was a complete no-go for me from the moment I saw it. I'm so glad my OS drive died last year, it was the push I needed to go Linux only.
Windows 11 made it so you can't move the taskbar to the side anymore either.
This is one of my top two reasons for not using Windows. Wth can I not put the panel where ever the hell I want?? So freaking frustrating how they control what you can do just in terms of user preferences. Or like, why can't I click on whatever window I want regardless of a prompt being open. "Oh you took a screen shot and want to save it, but you need to look at the site to remember the name? lol, fu." Unbearable.
Fyi, the other top reason is that they shove a bunch of garbage in that I don't want, like that Cortana bs they did a few years back. No thank you.
by default yes, this can be changed back though
I think your keyboard might be brokennnnnnn
awwwww beansssssss :(((
They have been there for a long time
Yup, I've been blocking them for months
I'm sorry, what is the problem here exactly? Are there default pinned app from their partners (I think I see Disney+) in the start menu, because I certainly don't see any advertisement banners.
FWIW I'm on Windows 11 and have the latest update installed (just checked, nothing new there, but I recall installing one a day or two ago), and I'm happy to report it did not make any changes to the apps I had pinned. All available space was already taken up by my own pins so that might have something to do with it, but I definitely don't feel like they've been trying to push something on me that I didn't ask for.
As far as Edge goes, I don't really care what they do to that because I simply do not use it.
Yep, have been hearing about it for months now, don't have any
There is a setting to disabled them.
The problem with these "settings" is that Windows updates don't respect them. They frequently get reset or superseded by new updates. This happened constantly if you tried to disable Cortana in Windows 10 - even if you changed the registry settings manually, they would get overwritten during updates. I don't trust Microsoft to respect user choice, they have a demonstrated track record of ignoring it.
In my opinion, when using a paid product, an expensive paid product, ads should not be opt out, if even present.
Besides everything else, it makes Windows even less comfortable to use.
For now, yes. You actually believe that will continue to be that way in 12 - 18 months?
